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Posted by chad_reid on (September 04 2010, 02:37 AM GMT)

@ MEETY I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU INDIA EXPECT THE DECISIONS TO GO THEIR WAY WHICH HAPPENS MOST OF THE TIME AND VERY TRUE ABOUT SACHIN COUNTLESS TIMES HIS OUT AND SOMETIMES 2-3 TIMES BUT UMPIRES DON'T WANT TO GIVE IT

Posted by NISH67 on (September 02 2010, 13:36 PM GMT)

To all those who have got hot and bothered here due to warranted criticism of Tendulkar just take a look at his utterances vis a vis - the UDRS and the sheer lack of practical thinking involved . If technology had not come into cricket at all , the likes of Bucknor , hair , harper would not have been exposed at all - they would have been termed as good as Bird and Frank Chester who when you look at old footage were not that great either ! Its just that the lack of technology in television coverage prior to the nineties ensured that the mistakes made by these umpires were not highlighted as much . Technology needs to keep evolving as we move along and players need to adapt to situations rather than cry foul at the first sign of discomfort for them . Look at the situation in an unbiased manner and you will see why hordes of people have written into this forum condemning tendulkar's attitude as much as the BCCI'S .

Posted by Asintha on (September 02 2010, 09:34 AM GMT)

@Ahmad Uetian If you talking about Mahela's decision I must say 1)Yuvraj Singh was out(caught behind) for "0" not given 2) MSD was LBW not given, when He was 17 3) V.Shewag Was LBW not given But he was run out with the same ball. if we count those india will not reach 175 please don't make comments like a child if you want to issue comments come with true fact.

Posted by Meety on (September 01 2010, 12:53 PM GMT)

LOL @ Mitcher, lets call it Cariblian Bloc! LOL @ india.cricket_lover - mate take a chill pill! If I told you once I told you a million times don't exagerate! India have never won a test without help from the umpires! Bangladesh should of won 2 nil earlier this year but were robbed! Sachin has never made a century without help from the umpires - LOL. @RobofBruce - nicely put - I doubt that you were arguing with a millionaire with a PHD though! BCCI look pretty lame by not taking up UDRS, its bad enough that they ALWAYS doctor their pitches!

Posted by touchmate_2006 on (September 01 2010, 12:12 PM GMT)

india will lose if they dont have the UDRS system in the tests

Posted by Mitcher on (September 01 2010, 11:16 AM GMT)

@zxaar: What I do remember is that Bucknor was removed because India threw a tantrum worthy of a three year old and threatened to go home. Was hilarious the way I recall it. Then we ended up with this UDRS to eradicate bad decisions. But alas, pampered Indian batsmen never think they're out (tough to believe, I know) so the BCCI won't utilise it. And who is this 'you' that stops teams winning in Australia. Last time I checked Bucknor was West Indian. Are you suggesting an all-powerful Austro-West Indian bloc has formed to contrive the results of cricket matches? Delusional Indian fans enrich my life. Thanks guys!!

Posted by TestIsBest on (September 01 2010, 09:04 AM GMT)

How come we haven't heard anything from Aussies side about not taking UDRS into consideration? Whether UDRS is taken or not but I think before giving final decision by ground Umpires on any dubious situation they should at least confirm with 3rd umpires. These marginal snicks and bat n pad LBWs can be easily looked in slow motion.

Posted by sonjjay on (September 01 2010, 01:40 AM GMT)

@ Ahmed Uetian well i certainly dont think the umpires follow the rule book coz there always will be ambiguity over marginal calls, besides i am sure u must have seen the umpire's decision vary when the ball pitches in the rough and when it doesnt, or sometimes u the impact is in line and if u assume it go dead straight u should be giving it out but u may have seen umpires turning it down with the reason of missing the stumps etc and also when i meant the ball going over the stumps i meant hitting the knee rool i really dont think a full length delivery can hit the knee roll, it is pretty much implied that i was talkin abt a good length delivery...

Posted by mohsin9975 on (August 31 2010, 20:08 PM GMT)

Bcci at least give a valid reason to stop all the tongues wagging. People out here commenting abt hawk eye on basis of 2008 tour of lanka shd take a look at eng v pak tests. Udrs has improved a lot since 2008.I agree last time in SL india were on wrong side of most decisions, as marginal lbw decisions like ball hitting outside half of leg and off stump were given out after review when onfield umpires rightly gave not out. While now 3rd umps give it rightly not out. I feel boards shd not restrict only to hawkeye and hotspot. Snicko is handy when hotspot fails to pick faint edge in caught behind.Use all 3 techno in udrs. Icc shd make udrs compulsory but i dont think this is possible till bcci-a grp of jokers, decide to.I m really ashamed of my ntl cric board.They make a mess whereever they go. Bcci at least provide decent seating arranget and shelter for crowd before organising another ipl.Also pls make cricket watchable on tv as before.All those *ing ads in betn balls.Excssive no. of ads betn ovrs. Earlier it was only in matches played in india(when bcci was not richest board-it has never been poor). Bt nw whereever india plays, whichever channel(even my fav espnstar)has dropped their broadcast standards when india is involved e.g CL T20. Reason-our richest board.Ipl started by saying it will train and give our yungsters intl exposure.Looking at kohli, rohit,ishant,yuvraj harbhajan,shrishant(national disgrace)it seems that bcci is just develping a league of young players with superegos.

Posted by ananthak1412 on (August 31 2010, 19:37 PM GMT)

Im not in total agreement with the BCCI but something Sachin said has to be taken into account. According to him, after initially testing it out with Sri Lanka, all of them felt that only if HOT SPOT was present in UDRS it be a credible, scientific system.. rest of the Snicko/virtual eye/rest being only marginally accurate. Now as far as i know, the HOT SPOT cameras aren't a NECESSITY for the UDRS.. the minimum being just the virtual eye and the snicko. So possibly in such a scenario the players arent feeling all that oko with the system and hence the BCCI is rejecting it. But i also must say India did not know how to use the system in their favor. They should go for the present system and rule out blunders!